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Eva Hoffman

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July 01, 1945 in Kraków, Poland

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Biographies & Memoirs, Nonfiction, Literature & Fiction

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Eva Hoffman is a writer and academic. She was born Ewa Wydra July 1, 1945 in Cracow, Poland after her Jewish parents survived the Holocaust by hiding in the Ukraine. In 1959, during the Cold War, the thirteen years old Eva, her nine years old sister "Alinka" and her parents immigrated to Vancouver, Canada, where her name has been changed to Eva. Upon graduating from high school she received a scholarship and studied English literature at Rice University, Texas in 1966, the Yale School of Music (1967-68), and Harvard University, where she received a Ph.D. in English and American literature in 1974.

Eva Hoffmann has been a professor of literature and creative writing at various institutions, such as Columbia University, the University of Minne...more

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Books by Eva Hoffman

Average rating: 3.85 · 1224 ratings · 211 reviews · 11 distinct works

	Lost in Translation: A Life in a New Language 382 avg rating — 508 ratings — published 1989 — 10 editions	My rating:
	Appassionata 344 avg rating — 71 ratings — published 2008 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Time: Big Ideas, Small Books 381 avg rating — 42 ratings — 3 editions	My rating:
	Exit Into History: A Journey Through the New Eastern Europe 365 avg rating — 34 ratings — published 1993 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Shtetl: The Life and Death of a Small Town and the World of Polish Jews 358 avg rating — 43 ratings — published 1997 — 6 editions	My rating:
	After Such Knowledge: Where Memory of the Holocaust Ends and History Begins 383 avg rating — 36 ratings — published 2004 — 4 editions	My rating:
	The Secret 274 avg rating — 43 ratings — published 2002 — 7 editions	My rating:
	Illuminations 275 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2009 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Introducing children to mind mapping (or mind mapping to children) in 12 easy steps 500 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2002	My rating:
	The Learning Adventure 000 avg rating — 0 ratings	My rating:

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“Anger can be borne - it can even be satisfying - if it can gather into words and explode in a storm, or a rapier-sharp attack. But without these means of ventilation, it only turns back inward, building and swirling like a head of stream - building to an impotent, murderous rage.”
― Eva Hoffman, Lost in Translation: A Life in a New Language

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“Laughter is the lightning rod of play, the eroticism of conversation.”
― Eva Hoffman

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“I want to tell A Story, Every Story, everything all at once, not anything in particular that might be said through the words I know, and I try to roll all sounds into one, to accumulate more and more syllables, as if they might make a Möbius strip of language in which everything, everything is contained. There is a hidden rule even in this game, though - that the sounds have to resemble real syllables, that they can't disintegrate into brute noise, for then I wouldn't be talking at all. I want articulation - but articulation that says the whole world at once.”
― Eva Hoffman, Lost in Translation: A Life in a New Language

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